Whitewater Forum: heading to the Trinity in CA...

heading to the Trinity in CA...

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Topic: heading to the Trinity in CA...

Posted By: dylan
Subject: heading to the Trinity in CA...
Date Posted: 31 Jul 2009 at 10:17am

Any advice on good runs in the area this late in the game?< id="gwProxy" ="">< ="jsCall();" id="jsProxy" ="">

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Posted By: HoldinOn
Date Posted: 31 Jul 2009 at 11:58am

Burnt ranch gorge is supposed to be a classic and it runs all summer. Although I have never done this stretch I have reliable beta saying that is is still fun down to 300 cfs. It is a class IV-V run located deep in a gorge so bring your a game but I hear everything can be scouted and portaged. I was trying to get on it a couple of weeks ago when I was in the area but I couldn't find anyone to go with me.

-Ian

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Posted By: RemAcct2
Date Posted: 31 Jul 2009 at 1:14pm

Paul Gamache puts on the Burnt Ranch gorge race sometime in October; I am going to try to head down this year...

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Posted By: Kiran
Date Posted: 31 Jul 2009 at 8:21pm

The trinity at Cedar Flats ( http://www.dreamflows.com/graphs/day.009.php) is now running at about 520CFS.

At these flows, the burnt ranch gorge run is "Low side of good", a bit pinny but everything goes. Class IV+ - V with Number III still being a solid V

Great weather, long days, everything is scoutable and portagable

Have fun

Posted By: SupaSta
Date Posted: 01 Aug 2009 at 11:09pm

Lots of water in the area; what difficulty level are you looking for?

Have you checked some of the California websites, like boof.com?

Dan

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Life is short, paddle hard!

Posted By: KennySmith
Date Posted: 09 Aug 2009 at 8:09pm

I just did my guide school on the Trinity with Redwoods and Rivers in June and started kayaking right after. I left on July 21st and it was getting low and on the Pigeon Point run Hell Hole was getting pretty big. There are some fun and fairly technical rapids on pigeon point but i haven't done the gorge.Beautiful river though, great people too.

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